The numbers recorded of the Biden border crisis are historically high. The number of illegal aliens encountered by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was more than 260,000 in September. That is the highest number this year. The numbers in September are also higher than last year’s record of 252,320 in December 2022.

Many of the illegal aliens are from hot spots and they are labeled as “special interest aliens” by the U.S. government.

NEW: Internal CBP data provided & confirmed by CBP sources reveals thousands of “special interest aliens” from mostly Middle Eastern countries have been apprehended by Border Patrol while crossing into U.S. illegally over last 2 years.

Syria: 538
Yemen: 139
Iran: 659
Iraq: 123…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) October 10, 2023

Date range 10/1/2021 – 10/4/2023

These are Border Patrol apprehensions between ports of entry only, this data does not include CBP encounters at ports of entry.

Border Patrol sources tell me they have extreme concerns about who is coming into the country because they have little to no way of vetting people from these special interest countries. I’m told unless they have committed a crime previously in the US, or they are on some sort of federal watchlist, there’s no way to know who they are because most of their home countries don’t share data/records with the US so there is nothing to match a name to when BP agents run fingerprints.

A special interest alien is a term used by the U.S. government to refer to people coming from countries that have conditions that favor or harbor terrorism, or pose a potential national security to the U.S.

The Biden administration is not vetting the illegal aliens crossing the southern border. They are processed enough to release them into the interior of the country. These are people crossing between legal ports of entry. Joe Biden famously declared during the 2020 campaign that, “There will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration.” That changed recently when the administration admitted it would be building a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The administration softens the reality by saying the funds were set aside for a border wall in 2019 and had to be used for that.

Mayorkas took to X, formerly known as Twitter, saying the funding for the project was appropriated in 2019, during the Trump era, and the government is required to use these funds since Congress didn’t rescind the money.

He added that the current administration seeks a comprehensive approach to tackle the immigration crisis, which includes “state-of-the-art border surveillance technology and modernized ports of entry.”

Sure, use everything possible but state-of-the-art technology alone is not enough. Walls and barriers work, too. Some Republican politicians are working to help secure the southern border with legislation.

Last month, Cruz introduced the Secure the Border Act — which sought to resume construction of the wall, tighten asylum regulations, criminalize visa overstays and fund more border patrol agents — as a part of the stopgap bill. But the border security measures were ultimately stripped from the legislation.

Now, congressional lawmakers have until Nov. 17 to pass spending bills that will keep the government funded and avoid a shutdown. Any delay will affect border patrol agents, who are at the forefront of the crisis and may not receive a paycheck if the government shuts down.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., proposed a bill in late September that will ensure personnel at the border are paid in case of a shutdown.

Voter anger is rising in both parties. The Biden border crisis has spread to all 50 states and all congressional districts. This was Biden’s plan. DHS began flying and bussing illegal aliens all across the country out of Texas and Arizona long before Governor Abbott began sending migrant buses to sanctuary cities. DHS flew illegal aliens into small airports in the dead of night so that locals would not notice.

The I&I/TIPP Poll for October reflects voter dissatisfaction with Biden’s handling of the border. The issue will be a big one in 2024 with voters.

With a record surge of illegal immigrants into the U.S., I&I/TIPP asked the 1,378 voters who responded to the national online poll, which was taken from Sept. 27-29: “How would you describe the current situation at the United States’ southern border with Mexico?”

The poll, which was taken from Sept. 27-29 and has a margin of error of +/-2.7 percentage points, then provided five potential responses for participants: “crisis,” “a major problem,” “a minor problem,” “not a problem,” and “not sure.”

The response was clear and unequivocal. 72% of Americans called it either a crisis or a major problem. Just 22% said it was either a minor problem or not a problem. Another 6% said they were “Not sure.”

Hispanics are more concerned about illegal immigration than blacks are. That tracks. The truth is that those who went through the process and came to the U.S. legally are angry about all the ones who are not doing that.

There were some interesting results, however. Overall, 62% of the two largest minority groups, blacks and hispanics, called uncontrolled immigration across our border a crisis or major problem, while 27% didn’t see it that way.

But break the numbers down further and you might be surprised. Blacks are among the lowest percentage in seeing the border as a serious problem, at 54% to 34%. But hispanics at 70% are much more likely to see it as serious (38%) or even a crisis (33%), not too far different from whites, at 77% to 19%.

The majority of illegal aliens are single men. Most are of military age. This presents a problem, especially from all the ones from hot spots in the Middle East. They come from countries where many of the leaders would just as soon see Americans dead as alive. I worry that our porous border will not stop the next major terror attack, another 9/11/01. If there was an intelligence lapse in the U.S. and in Israel in the lead-up to the Israeli war with Hamas, it is not a stretch to understand that such intelligence lapses are happening here, too. It’s a horrifying thought.

I’ll leave this here.

Joe Biden needs to reverse his policies on the southern border.

We are vulnerable with so many military-age men coming into our country. Do you think that our enemies have not been looking at that weakness? pic.twitter.com/qZjdsxrVWo

— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) October 11, 2023